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Oppression, Interconnection, and Healing

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Charles Eisenstein: The Amazon is where Gaia's memory of health still exists. And if that can be preserved, there will always be hope. If there is one healthy region that still has integrity, then it can teach the rest of the world to be healthy again.

Salmon Migration as Earth Expression

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The only way contemporary science seems able to fathom some species' uncanny navigational powers is by likening the abilities of these animals to technologies of our own, human invention.

Indigenous Languages As Cures of the Earth

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"The Amazon is a sacred place. Human Beings do not make sacred places, they acknowledge them, recognize them, and sustain them without developing them. We honor them with languages taught to us by the Earth herself. ...They are part of the Cura Da Terra, "Cure of the Earth”, to borrow a phrase from the First Peoples of the Amazon."

Fragile Gold

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All wealth is derivative of Earth—most of all, values and wisdom. They are among the most recent emergent properties of our Universe's 13.8 billion years of inexpressibly glorious creativity, complexification of matter and energy, and deepening of consciousness.

Thomas Berry and the Rights of Nature

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One of Thomas Berry’s major contributions to what he called the Great Work was his articulation of the principles and philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence.

The Holy Grail of Restoration

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Over historical time the vegetative cover and evolutionary biodiversity of the Sinai has been in large part lost. Imagine the importance if it were possible to restore the region to ecological health.

Turtles Among Us

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Shouldn’t we be paying attention when the turtles head for high ground and wander among us with a kind of desperation? When at their most vulnerable, they come to us? There are many ways to ask why and many ways to answer.

Soul of the Earth: A Manifesto

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Humanity is married to Gaia, the Earth soul. We are embedded in her stream of manifested life. In a sense, […]

Engaged Ecology: Seven Practices to Restore Our Harmony with Nature

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It has rained steadily through the night, a gentle hushing sound in the thick tree canopy. In the morning light, […]